The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-09

WOui uuty IIees anu SHeep iHSDduuTN
would be practically abandoned in
our country, and foreign wool would
control our market. To-day we pro-
du"e every variety of wool for every |
kind of cloth. Nevertheless, the |
free-trader turning to the consumer
denounces the enormous increase in
price which the duty on imported
wool cOmpels him to pay, then turn
ing to the farmer argues that the du
ty on wool does no good, and cites
the small profits of the wool grower
and the low price of wool. Turning
again to the consumer, the free-trader
says come help me remove the enor-
nous duty on wool, that with cheap
raw material you may get cheap
clothing and blankets, and then
turning again to the farmer reminds
him that prior to 1865 we had prac-
tically free " WOOL, and with free trade
he will soon raise the price of his
wool clip. With such reasoning the
free-trader would PROSTATE an indus
try in our country which has more
than five hundred millions of dollars
invested in more than million
fiOcks, with an annual product of
forty millions of dollars in meat and
eighty millions of dollars in wool,
and employs more than two millions
of Aock masters and their worKmen.
Sacrifice all these at time when
wool Is as cheap as ever before, so
that the administration may retain
the duty on sugar, and restore the
duty ON tea and coffee.
We need Republican administra-
ton to reduce the surplus ny taking
off the internal revenue tax on alec
hol used in the arts and manufactur-
ers, or on tobacco as farm product
of fifteen states and sixteen hundred
counties. or by largely reducing the
duty on sugar or making sugar free
as substantially foreign product {;
we need Republican administration
to regulate the inequalities of the
/ tariff with a friendly hand, and to
revise its administrative features to
build up the navy. to fOrtify the
coasts and make impragnable our
great harbors to grapple afresh the
profound problem Of silver money,
to obtain an agreement with leading
commercial nations. whereby we
may enjoy a parity between gold and
silver money, a bimetallism in accord
with the settled judgment of man
kind; to secure and maintain a bank
ing currency elastic and guaranteed
without disturbing the business in
terests of the country. We want it
that the people may feel assured that
the dollar they labor for is honest,
stable, abundant, good everywhere
and all the time in order to extend
material aid to educate all the illit'
crate who will control the destinies
of the republic, and especially the
colored people of the South to push
forward, as experience may show to
be wise, the regulation of Interstate
commerce, and to control the tele-
graph as a mode of public intelli-
gence; that this nation of working
men and women may forever abhOI
the red flag of anarchy as treason to
the republic to establish postoffice
savings banks for the WageWorkers
of the nation; to inaugurate modes
of arbitration between corporations
and employees, under sanction of law,
putting laborers on equal footing
with employers, to Obviate strikes,
lockouts and boycots want party
in power that may never aeain,
through fear of itself, appoint a trl.
umvirate to control legislation. In
a word, in place of Democratic adj
ministratiOn that finds its response
bilities greater than it can grasp. we
want a Republican administration
with courage to affirmatively dc
something and dare something for q
great progressive people, which can
; not stand still.
At another time and place l hope
to consider the situation in our state
Tonight [ dare not tax your pa
thence. Let me. however, in conclu
sion, remind you that here at hand
this fall we Republicans have worn
to do as citizens, which transcends
questions of party politics, Within
our state frauds upon the registration
and elections are notorious. Public
!, gatherings of leading members of tbs
, ruling party in Maryland declare
that bribery Is a common vice thai
the buying and selling of legislation
at Annapolis is chronic evil, and
that elections in Baltimore are annu-
ally mockery and crime. An EN-.
|, inent Democratic citizen of Balti'
more has recently asserted that in